Scholars Reach Safe Havens BYLINE: Popper, Nathaniel BODY: In a seemingly different life, Ahmed Subhy Mansour was a scholar at Cairo's venerated Al-Azhar University. He studied the history of dictatorship in Islam and the place of death and paradise in the Koran. But some aspect of his research did not go over

d that its ban can not simply be extrapolated to all forms of contemporary interest. In fact, the Islamic theological research committee at Cairo's Al-Azhar University ruled 21-1 that loans against a fixed interest rate are not forbidden under Islam (Trouw 2002). Still there are many Muslim scholars that do believ

inorities, as well as the broader vision of a democratic state. To each draft of such a document (proposals were made by both leaders of the Muslim Al-Azhar University and the interim deputy prime minister) the various factions have had objections. On December 7, the SCAF further complicated matters by announcing

Scholars Reach Safe Havens BYLINE: Popper. Nathaniel BODY: In a seemingly different life, Ahmed Subhy Mansour was a scholar at Cairo's venerated Al-Azhar University. He studied the history of dictatorship in Islam and the place of death and paradise in the Koran. But some aspect of his research did not go over